FRESHMANIC.  Pertaining to a Freshman; resembling a Freshman, or his condition.

The Junior Class had heard of our miraculous doings, and asserted with that peculiar dignity which should at all times excite terror and awe in the Freshmanic breast, that they would countenance no such proceedings.—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 316.

I do not pine for those Freshmanic days.—­Ibid., Vol.  III. p. 405.

FRESHMAN, PARIETAL.  In Harvard College, the member of the Freshman Class who gives notice to those whom the chairman of the Parietal Committee wishes to see, is known by the name of the Parietal Freshman.  For his services he receives about forty dollars per annum, and the rent of his room.

FRESHMAN, PRESIDENT’S.  A member of the Freshman Class who performs the official errands of the President, for which he receives the same compensation as the PARIETAL FRESHMAN.

  Then Bibo kicked his carpet thrice,
  Which brought his Freshman in a trice. 
  “You little rascal! go and call
  The persons mentioned in this scroll.” 
  The fellow, hearing, scarcely feels
  The ground, so quickly fly his heels.
    Rebelliad, p. 27.

FRESHMAN, REGENT’S.  In Harvard College, a member of the Freshman Class whose duties are given below.

“When any student shall return to town, after having had leave of absence for one night or more, or after any vacation, he shall apply to the Regent’s Freshman, at his room, to enter the time of his return; and shall tarry till he see it entered.

“The Regent’s Freshman is not charged under the heads of Steward, Instruction, Sweepers, Catalogue, and Dinner.”—­Laws of Harv.  Coll., 1816, pp. 46, 47.

This office is now abolished.

FRESHMAN’S BIBLE.  Among collegians, the name by which the body of laws, the catalogue, or the calendar of a collegiate institution is often designated.  The significancy of the word Bible is seen, when the position in which the laws are intended to be regarded is considered.  The Freshman is supposed to have studied and to be more familiar with the laws than any one else, hence the propriety of using his name in this connection.  A copy of the laws are usually presented to each student on his entrance into college.

Every year there issues from the warehouse of Messrs. Deighton, the publishers to the University of Cambridge, an octavo volume, bound in white canvas, and of a very periodical and business-like appearance.  Among the Undergraduates it is commonly known by the name of the “Freshman’s Bible,”—­the public usually ask for the “University Calendar.”—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 230.

See COLLEGE BIBLE.

FRESHMAN SERVITUDE.  The custom which formerly prevailed in the older American colleges of allowing the members of all the upper classes to send Freshmen upon errands, and in other ways to treat them as inferiors, appears at the present day strange and almost unaccountable.  That our forefathers had reasons which they deemed sufficient, not only for allowing, but sanctioning, this subjection, we cannot doubt; but what these were, we are not able to know from any accounts which have come down to us from the past.